The government shut down seven times when O'Neill was speaker and Reagan was president. And they were real shutdowns, too, given that they occurred after Jimmy Carter's attorney general, Benjamin.
Jul 17, 2015 Once, the late Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill, Jr., Speaker of the House of Representatives, told someone that, 'All politics is local.' This now has been repeated so often that it ought to be stitched.

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Thomas Phillip 'Tip' O'Neill, Jr. (December 9, 1912 – January 5, 1994) was an American politician, serving in the House of Representatives for 34 years. He was the Speaker of the House from 1977 until his retirement in 1987, making him the second longest-serving Speaker in U.S. history after Sam Rayburn.

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All politics is local.
- All Politics Is Local: and Other Rules of the Game, Crown Books, 1993, ISBN 0812922972
Today I promise you that I will speak gavel fairly, firmly, and with responsibility. Always respecting the rules and the presidents of this house.

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CHAPTER ONE

Tip O'Neill
And the Democratic Century
By JOHN ALOYSIUS FARRELL
Warner Books

From Dublin Street to Barry's Corner

In the early part of the nineteenth century, an intrepid couple named Daniel and Catherine Quinlan O'Connell took their brood of children from Ireland to North America. They settled in Portland, Maine, for a time, then made their way to Massachusetts. They were blessed with hardy sons who worked as laborers and on the railroads. They came from Mallow, a small market town in the county of Cork. They were Tip O'Neill's great-great-grandparents.

Daniel and Catherine had married in Mallow in 1797, and raised seven children. Several were young adults when the great migration took place: Johanna, Michael, Callahan, Jeremiah, William, Daniel Jr. and Ann. Arriving in Massachusetts in the 1840s, the O'Connells settled in North Cambridge, on the skirts of a vacant meadowland of thickets and fields called the Great Swamp, known locally for its deposits of rich clay. There, they bought land and built homes, settling in a cluster at the point where a new railroad spur to the ice houses at Fresh Pond crossed a lane that came to be called Dublin Street.

North Cambridge was a distinct, rural portion of the city of Cambridge, the seventeenth-century town that faced Boston from across the Charles River. Old Cambridge harbored philosophers and ministers, Harvard University, and the fine Yankee homes along Brattle and Mount Auburn Streets; it had once served as capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. At the end of the last ice age, the retreating glaciers had left behind a recessional moraine: a ridge of sand and gravel debris with summits that the colonists and their descendants christened Avon Hill, Observatory Hill, Reservoir Hill, Strawberry Hill and Mount Auburn. The hills formed a natural barrier between Cambridge town and the swampy plain beyond, leaving North Cambridge with its own character and pattern of development. At the time the O'Connells arrived, the area was primarily known for its farms and pastures, and the slaughterhouses that surrounded Porter's Hotel (home of the Porterhouse steak) at what is now called Porter Square. But for the next fifty years, the development of the 'clay lands' into a robust brick industry changed the area from bucolic Yankee farmland to bustling industrial center. Irish and French Canadian immigrants were drawn to the area to work for brick makers like Nathaniel J. Wyeth and Peter Hubbell, as New England's entry into the industrial revolution created a demand for the ubiquitous red bricks that were used to build textile mills, shoe factories — and the newer halls of Harvard.

Daniel and Catherine's daughter Ann met and married Daniel Hayes, who was a switchman and gate tender for the railroad at the Dublin Street crossing. 'It was a family function to take care of the busy crossing with trains coming at all times of the day,' said Daniel's great-grandson Danny. 'During the day they had signs, and at night they used lanterns. The train whistle was the signal for someone to run out and stop the buggies and wagons. Every member of the family took a turn.' The family appeared to prosper. They kept in touch with their relations in Mallow, and there was considerable travel back and forth across the Atlantic. Catherine, the matriarch, who was known as Mummy Kate, became something of a local personage. She was said to stroll up to Harvard Square, there to take a place by a potbellied stove in a local grocery store and swap stories from Irish folklore with Harvard professors like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. At the age of one hundred she returned to Ireland to die, escorted by her seventy-nine-year-old son Daniel. She lived for three more years and was buried in Mallow.

Mummy Kate's daughter Johanna had remained in Ireland when the rest of the family left for North America. She was seventeen in 1822 when she married John O'Neill, a twenty-seven-year-old Irishman, at Mallow's newly built St. Mary's Church. They lived on Gallows Lane, near the banks of the scenic River Blackwater at the eastern end of the town of 8,000 people, beneath the ruined battlements of Mallow Castle, whose rebellious owner Sir John of Desmond had been killed and dismembered and his corpse hung on the gates of Cork by the English in 1581. John and Johanna's son Patrick, one of five children, was born in Ireland in 1832. He was Tip O'Neill's grandfather.

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Though the family now had sturdy roots in America, it was disaster that ushered Patrick to the new world. In the fall of 1845 Phytophthora infestans, a potato blight, triggered an ecological catastrophe unparalleled in modern European history and a famine of Biblical proportions in Ireland. Starvation and disease—typhus, dysentery, scurvy and turberculosis—swept the island. Unable to pay rent, hundreds of thousands of tenants were evicted; their crumbling cottages dotted the countryside like skeletal teeth. Terror took Mallow when the 1846 crop failed. Landlords were assassinated. There were riots in nearby Dungarvan and looting in Castlemartyr. The winter was especially severe that year, and wild dogs consumed the wraiths who died by the hundreds on the roadside or in frozen hovels, defying the authorities' ability to inter the corpses. The next year was as or more cruel, remembered in Irish history as 'Black '47.' County Cork was among the worst hit by the great hunger, with yearly deaths of 30,000 to 40,000 from starvation and disease from 1846 to 1851. The fevers were particularly bad in Mallow, where some 30 to 40 souls died every week in the crowded workhouse and the coffin trade flourished, but the greyhounds of the Protestant gentry remained well fed and cared for. 'The people are beginning to think and... to ask themselves why it should be so; and to consider by what means their condition may be improved,' wrote the members of the Mallow Relief Committee. 'They look round their wretched hovels, where they were born, and where their fathers and forefathers lived and perceive that the same squalid misery has existed for generations. They look into the faces of wives and half-fed and almost naked children and determine

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